Registrations are now open for designers to participate in lakmé Fashion Week’s GenNext programme in association with International Institute Of Fashion Design (INIFD). Young designers who aspire to showcase their collections at lakmé Fashion Week Summer Resort 2018 can send in their entries by clicking on http://lakméfashionweek. co.in/home/gennext. The GenNext programme aims at nurturing the potential talent of aspiring designers and empowering them with right mentoring and grooming from leading industry experts. Some of the criteria are that the designers must demonstrate innovation with materials and techniques, question and challenge conventional norms in Indian fashion and push the boundaries for creative experimentation using design techniques from fashion apparel, textile or other relevant creative disciplines such as art, film making, music, sculpture, etc. Overall, a Gen Next applicant must showcase clarity in vision for the label through its aesthetic and design philosophy, concept of the proposed collection and execution through the samples submitted upon selection.Application registrations close by October 30, 2017.